Christmas markets are not my thing usually. It so happened however, that Björn found a small korean-japanese one on Karl-Marx-Allee the other day. That sounded more intriguing than your average Glühwein&Co headache! There was also Glühwein there, I admit, but also cute stands of all kinds, with rare&bizarre objects, as was hoped for! For example tiny retro soy sauce flasks in blue glass B-) But the real deal was the last area we explored (there was an indoors), which hosted Berlin based Kimonomono. She had a fabulous choice of kimonos and yakutas, and there was no way to resist this 1910s-1920s long-sleeve kimono (long sleeves indicate the young woman is unmarried 🙂 )
Arigatō!
Maybe not for carrying down the trash, but a perfect fit for everything else from medium formal occasions to casual cocktail evenings!
If it wasn’t for the one and only Hansi, this would probably never have become possible, so: danke Hansi, ich bin unwürdig! 😉 La Principessa: Hammond C3 (ca.1959, das “Kirchenmodell” der B3) und dazu ein Leslie 22H. Grande gioia! Bench and Leslie were a bit trashed and had to undergo renovation, which meant Yeti fur! And the backside of the Leslie became the front, with a removable plexiglass cover, to be able to see the speakers, motors, and last but not least the tubes! New tubes have also been installed (russian ones – Gold Lion KT88 Genalex – and czech ones – SECC82-TESLA), for the sake of even more “dusty” (staubig, Hansi, staubig!!) 60s Bossa Nova Hammond sound! Ein großes Danke auch nochmal an alle, die geholfen haben, die Prinzessin in ihrem neuen Zuhause zu installieren: Gunter, Björn, Sva & Marc!
Haptik, Klang, Optik, Geruch, Herz … außer Geschmack ist einfach alles dabei!
If “chin” was a sense, this post would be part of that taxon! Doesn’t the chin of this latest flower in the orchid collection (phragmipedium longifolium) remind of Lucky Luke’s Daltons? In any case, it started its first flower which then opened up yesterday, after I’ve tended to this plant for more than 4 years! It is a slow one. No wonder that it now hangs around with an extremely chilled Big-Lebowski-style dude-o-wicz attitude. I think I’ll start feeding it White Russians 😉
Averell Dalton ?Phragmipedium longifolium. Take your time, dude.
Die Lektüre der “Reise in den Westen” hat ja neben so einigen Dämonen viel Aufschlussreiches zutage gefördert. Zum Beispiel die “sechs Räuber”. Wikipedia erzählt uns zu den Āyatana, den “sense bases”, die sich auf magische Weise mit den Kategorien dieses vorliegenden blogs (teilweise) decken, außerdem:
” […] the Buddha identifies that craving arises from sensations that result from contact at the six sense bases. Therefore, to overcome craving and its resultant suffering, one should develop restraint of and insight into the sense bases.”
Es ist also Vorsicht geboten! Zuviel Schwelgen in Marmelade aus Donaumarillen kann dem Erreichen eurer inneren Buddha-Natur im Wege stehen! Ich sag’s nur dazu. Nicht dass sich dann ein/e blog-AbonnentIn beschwert nach jahrzehntelangem Lesen des blog of the senses!
MAHAPRAJNAPARAMITA
Mit vollendeter Weisheit ans andere Ufer!
(ich nehm’ trotzdem ein paar Marmeladesemmerln mit 😉 )
Finally a souvenir that makes sense: Tom-of-Finland-coffee from Helsinki. Note that it’s “medium roast”. We don’t want those boys to get heart problems 🙂 Lets see if they managed to roast a leathery note into it …
